362. Tsigoineruwaizen (1980) aka Zigeunerweisen

Suzuki's film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the 1981 Japanese Academy Awards, and is the first of the revered Taisho Trilogy.

Visually astonishing and eternally haunting, this film represents the director's break from his characteristically campy yakuza flicks, delving into material that addresses the mysteries of death and desire. Set in the 1920's and saturated with decadence and nihilism, the story unites a disparate quartet drawn together by unseen strings of fate - and nearly driven mad by their own fears and desires. While on vacation, somber professor Aochi encounters his childhood friend, Nakasago, a handsome drifter down on his luck. Both men fall in love with Koine, a geisha, and though they go on to marry other women, their passions for Koine grow into all-consuming obsession.

Suzuki's naturalistic, yet twisted and bizarre, approach helped reincarnate himself as the modern auteur of Japanese Art cinema. Its uniqueness only intensifies its appeal. A weird cocktail of horror and nightmarish sensibilities.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081662/

IMDB Rating: 7.8/10

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Cast:
Yoshio Harada ... Nakasono
Naoko Otani ... Sono / Koine (plays two parts)
Toshiya Fujita ... Toyojiro Aochi
Michiyo Ookusu ... Shuko Aochi
Kisako Makishi ... Taeko Aochi
Yuki Furutachi (as Yuki Furutachi)
Kirin Kiki ... Kimi
Akaji Maro
Sumie Sasaki ... Maid at a hotel
Isao Tamagawa ... Doctor Amaki
Hatsuo Yamatani ... Police (as Hatsuo Yamaya

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